april 14 - may 5 pacific union college • rasmussen art gallery
Student Art Exhibition. Every year PUC’s art students submit a broad variety of work for this exhibition. Rather than try to encompass the whole range in my promotion for the event, I approached the project as my own unique work—the one piece that attendees would see before they even set foot in the gallery.
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Colloquy Speaker Series. To advertise Pacific Union College’s regular series of various guest speakers, I wanted to take an academic event and present it in a way that would appeal to college students. The challenge was to find a balance between hip and intelligent.
Pacific Quest. This annual program gives middle school students a chance to get a jumpstart on college with a week of preview classes. I emphasized all the new directions an education will provide these young kids.
REVOlution. Concerned college students come together each year at PUC to raise money toward a special cause—this year a community kitchen in a poor town in Argentina. I took inspiration from the Argentinian f lag to create a bright, hopeful design.
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My Alice. This innovative theater production explored the relationship between the fictional characters of Alice in Wonderland and the real-life personalities that inspired the story. My art explored the patterns and layers within that complex production.
Student Film Festival. PUC’s annual student film festival showcases great future filmmakers, so I played with a heroic, Art Deco-inspired, retro-futuristic concept. The poster evokes Hollywood grandeur and unlimited possibilities.
Stop-Watch Film Festival. The event is an experimental festival that makes filmmakers squeeze a story into a single minute—so I experimented with an idea that combined elements of time, a pre-film countdown, and a compact jumble of abstracted imagery.
The classic Harley-Davidson engines are two-cylinder, V-twin engines with the pistons mounted in a 45° “V”. THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, HARLEY-DAVIDSON UNITES PEOPLE DEEPLY, PASSIONATELY AND AUTHENTICALLY. AND IN THIS UNITY THERE IS A RICH AND UNENDING VARIETY OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. FROM TOWN TO TOWN AND COUNTRY TO COUNTRY, HARLEY-DAVIDSON TRANSCENDS CULTURES IN WAYS THAT RESONATE LOCALLY. WITH BOTH GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE AND LOCAL RELEVANCE, IT’S NO SURPRISE THAT HARLEY-DAVIDSON RANKS AS ONE OF THE STRONGEST BRANDS IN THE WORLD. SUCH ACCOLADES ARE GRATIFYING OF COURSE. BUT IGNITING THE FIRE WITHIN PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT.
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HE HARLEY OWNERS GROUP (HOG) is a sponsored community marketing club, operated by Harley-Davidson for enthusiasts of that brand’s motorcycles. The HOG is “the grandaddy of all community-building efforts,” serving to promote not just a consumer product, but a lifestyle. The HOG has also served to open new revenue streams for the company, with the production of tie-in merchandise offered to club members, numbering over one million strong,[1] making it the largest factory-sponsored riding club in the world.[2] The Harley-Davidson community was the prototype for the ethnographic term subculture of consumption, defined as “a distinctive subgroup of society that self-selects on the basis of a shared commitment to a particular product class.
Brand, or consumption activity.”[3] The Harley Owners Group was created in 1983 as way to build longer-lasting and stronger relationships with Harley-Davidson’s customers, by making ties between the company, its employees, and consumers.[4] HOG members typically spend 30% more than other Harley owners, on such items as clothing and Harley-Davidson-sponsored events. [5] Much of the intent of this branding effort is presenting Harley-Davidson as an American icon, with the focus on authenticity and pride in being American-made. All of this is credited with turning flagging sales around, and allowing the Harley-Davidson company to grow again.
In 1983, the Motor Company formed a club for owners of its product by turning “hog” into the acronym HOG., for Harley Owners Group.
Harley Davidson Annual Report. In this class project, I wanted to try a modern take on the classic, masculine ethos of this iconic company. The result presents a feeling of power and freedom that is just what I think a Harley owner is looking for.
175 Creases. In this assignment for my Visual Identity Systems class, I was called to develop a catalog based on something close to me personally. I presented a book on my beloved collection of 175 T-shirts, featuring 30 particularly special specimens.
Funnybook. PUC’s student face book was a challenge: creating a bright, exciting design for a compact and easy-to-use publication—all under an incredibly tight deadline.
Chocopologie. My assignment: to create a new and innovative packaging design for a high-end brand. At $10 a bar, my biggest motivation on this project was to make Chocopologie chocolate look like it was worth the price.
Queen of Hearts. I developed the packaging of this Avon product to appeal to women who are young and pampered—or feel like they should be. My guiding statement for the project was, “Sometimes being a princess isn’t enough.”
Man Talk. The men’s residence halls at PUC asked me to design these promotional posters for a discussion series on what it means to be a man. Potentially a heavy topic, so I tried to make if fun and appealing with a playful take on classic icons of manhood: the warrior, the outdoorsman, the smooth operator.
The Frog Prince. This assignment in an Illustration class called for me to illustrate a classic story. I challenged myself to use bright, lively colors to create dark and ominous imagery.
naturally beautiful yarns & fibers
Sincere Sheep.Client Brooke Sinnes, owner of this unique Napa Valley wool company, was inspired by the ultra-clean Scandinavian aesthetic. I warmed it up a bit with a touch of American nostalgia. This project resulted in a logo, as well as packaging labels and a website.
Kratos Display Systems. As a class project, I developed this logo for a company that manufactures scientific measurement equipment. Although I didn’t actually work with the company, I imagined their client as the hip, young, up-and-coming scientist on the town.
Inspiré. Client Susan Branum’s St. Helena pilates studio has been in need of a new identity for decades. The name of her studio comes from the French for “to breathe,” so she asked me to evoke movement, freedom, and air. The additional challenge was to avoid the clichéd human-body-as-design element utilized by every other pilates studio in the world. Good design isn’t enough—you have to stand out.